To help Rae at Made By Rae and Dana at MADE Celebrate the Boy this month, my oh-so-talented sister is having a giveaway for one of her precious flat cap golfing hats from her Etsy site, Kissed by Kate. Since she doesn’t currently have a blog, you can enter this wonderful giveaway here on Come and See the Seitz.

The giveaway is for 1 custom made-to-order hat. She will work with you to decide the size, color, texture, and fabric you want – it can even be made as an adult size.

Giveaway Rules:

1. One entry per person.

2. Just comment on this post to enter the giveaway. Make sure you leave your email address in your comment (or have your email address visible in your profile).

3. The winner will be randomly selected.

4. Kate will ship internationally.

5. The Giveaway will run from Feb 19-midnight through the end of the day on Feb 20.

Good luck!!!

UPDATE: Comments closed! The winner will be announced later today. Thanks for all your wonderful comments!!

Congrats, Shorty! I will email you about how to claim your prize later today. And to everyone who didn’t win…fret not! Jamie from CSN stores has made me a “Preferred Blogger,” meaning I’ll have the option to do many more giveaways in the future, perhaps every other month! I’ll try to throw in some fabric/sewing related ones as well, because I’m pretty sure that’s why most of you are here!

EDIT: This giveaway is now closed. Please come back in a couple of months for another giveaway from CSN stores!!

Hi Friends!

I’ve got a giveaway for you guys today coming from the lovely folks at CSN stores. These guys sell practically EVERYTHING!! From wall sconces and shoes to cookware and baby toys…you can find almost anything you could possibly need or want at one of their online stores!

The winner of this giveaway will receive a $50 gift certificate to be used at any of their 200+ stores.

Thanks for all the love on the Panty Tutorial. I’m so happy to hear that many of you are interested in trying it! Please, please, if you do give it a shot, I would love to hear how it turned out/see pictures!

And now, the winner of the jersey and stretch lace is……Bethany!!! Which is TOTALLY awesome because I work with Bethany’s husband (Cameron) and she is super great and an incredibly talented baker! Although she needs to post on her blog more…come on, Bethany, get to it!

Bethany’s comment makes me laugh because Cam is known for going to extreme lengths for our work’s “Biggest Loser” contest. He is excellent at losing weight in a very unhealthy way. And he knows it’s unhealthy. So don’t bother telling him so.

I made it from an IKEA duvet cover (cotton sateen) that I bought awhile back with the intention of making it into a futon cover. I like this use much better, and I still have tons of fabric leftover. I’ll post more pictures soon.

Finally, I have to say Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband. You are the best, babe! And I love that you were born on St. Patty’s Day…it is so fun!

This tutorial will take you, step by step, through the process of making underwear that fit you perfectly and look great too. You can click on any of the photos in each step to enlarge them (which will make reading the text on some of them much easier). Please use this pattern for personal use only, and feel free to link back to this post.

As always, I encourage you to Contact Me if you have any questions throughout the process, I love to hear from you!!

Supplies:

1/2 yard of jersey fabric (up to 1 yard for larger sizes) – It is really hard to find cute jersey, so feel free to repurpose old t-shirts, pajamas or whatever jersey you can find!

Create the Pattern:

Start with your favorite pair of underwear that have seen better days, these will be referred to as the “pattern underwear”:

1. Cut off elastic waistband and elastic legbands from the underwear (set these aside for later use):

2. Cut off lining (no need to use a seam ripper):

3. Cut along sides of panties (follow the seam lines).

4. Cut along bottom seam to create 3 separate pattern pieces (Note: some underwear will differ from mine below, if that’s the case you may need to add a 4th pattern piece and adjust the steps accordingly):

5. Find the center line of the front and back pieces and mark it in pen. Fold the pattern underwear in half along this seam. Fold your pattern paper in half and match fold lines. You will be tracing your pattern on the fold so as to create a symmetric pattern piece:

6. Before cutting, determine how stretchy your jersey is. If it has about the same stretchiness as your pattern underwear, trace your pattern to the same size as the pattern underwear, but add a ½ inch seam allowance all around. If it has less stretch than your pattern underwear, consider tracing your pattern a bit larger than your pattern underwear (also add ½” seam allowance). If it has much more stretch than your pattern underwear, consider tracing your pattern a bit smaller than your pattern underwear (also add ½” seam allowance).

7. To create the lining pattern piece, make your pattern the exact same size as the lower part of the front piece, yet keep the length the same as the piece you cut from your pattern underwear.

You have now created your pattern!

Cut Pattern from Fabric:

8. Cut out your pattern pieces from your fabric – take care to place the patterns on the fabric so that they will stretch the most from side to side rather than top to bottom. I use a rotary cutter for this, but if you are using scissors, be sure to pin well before cutting. For the sake of hygiene, if the jersey fabric you are using for the panties is not 100% cotton, you should cut the lining piece out of fabric that is.

9. At this point you can serge with a rolled hem around all of the pieces, but this is not necessary, since jersey will not fray and all edges will be covered by the lace. If you do decide to do this, do not yet serge around inside leg edges.

10. Finish the short end (marked in orange below) of the lining piece as this will be exposed on the inside of the panties. You can do this by serging, or by folding down a narrow hem and stitching it in place:

Construct the Panties:

11. Place your pattern pieces on your workspace in the following order, lining the bottom edge (as pictured below):

-Front Piece, right side up

-Bottom Piece, right side down

-Lining, right side down, long edge on bottom

Stitch along the bottom edge (marked in orange) using a ½” seam allowance. Use a stretch stitch or a zig zag stitch.

12. Fold lining up towards front and iron it down:

Using a zig zag stitch, sew down the lining to the front side on the two sides (marked in orange). Alternatively, you can hold the lining in place by serging the leg edges, if you like:

13. Lay your stretch lace trim out next to the leg band of elastic that you removed from your pattern pieces. Cut your lace trim to the same length:

14. Pin the two ends of the lace to both ends of one leg opening, with the lace sitting directly on top of the right side of the fabric. Pin the center of the lace to the center of the seam:

15. Using a zig zag stitch, stretch the trim so that it sits straight onto the fabric (see my demo video posted below). You will be stitching it in place in two places: first along the innermost edge of the lace and then on the part of the lace that touches the raw edge of the fabric (this is made more clear in the video):

Here is a video where I demo how to sew the stretch lace onto the underwear:

16. Repeat for the other leg:

17. Lay your stretch lace trim out next to the waist band of elastic that you removed from your pattern pieces. Cut your lace trim to the same length:

18. Pin the two ends of lace to both ends of the back piece waist line, and once in the middle, with the lace sitting directly on top of the right side of the fabric:

19. Using a zig zag stitch, stretch the trim so that it sits straight onto the fabric (see video above). Again, you will be stitching it in place in two places: first along the innermost edge of the lace and then on the part of the lace that touches the raw edge of the fabric.

20. Repeat for the front waist band:

21. Bring the front and back pieces together, right sides together. stitch along the two side seams (marked in orange), using a ½ inch seam allowance. If your front and back pieces aren’t exactly the same size at the sides, that is OK, just stretch the smaller side to make them even.

22. Turn them inside out and admire your adorable new panties! Now you know how to make underwear! Be sure to keep your pattern and make any adjustments needed so that the next time you make them they will be just as lovely.

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CLOSED: Giveaway!!!!

I’m going to giveaway enough jersey and matching stretch lace trim for one winner to make a pair of these panties! Just leave a comment to be entered (if you’ve already commented then you have entered). You can receive one more entry for following my blog or letting me know you already do (leave another comment). I’ll pick a winner next Wednesday, March 17th. Good luck!!